It feels like the palace is trying to prepare people for Queen Elizabeth’s passing in the more immediate sense. I’m not saying today or tomorrow, but… it feels like they don’t expect her to make it to 2023. Obviously, we all lived through the Great Platinum Jubbly Crisis of 2022, when the courtiers were telling everyone that the Queen was too ill and infirm to do anything for the multi-day celebration of her reign. The courtiers have been panicking for much of the past year, ever since the Queen’s mysterious hospitalization last October. They’re really hiding her away in Balmoral and hoping no one notices that she hasn’t been seen at all in over a month. Then, a few weeks ago, I had a sixth sense Virgo Vibe. AKA a tingling of my Spidey sense or whatever you want to call it, a predictive mojo. I sometimes get a predictive mojo about certain events and I’m right often enough that I always listen to my gut. My sixth sense is telling me that Queen Elizabeth will likely not make it to the end of 2022. Yes, my vibe has data and anecdotal information behind it. Now this: the Sun reports that Prince Charles stops by Balmoral every day to see his mother and that’s pretty unusual for this family.
Prince Charles has been making regular morning visits to the Queen at Balmoral as she continues to suffer mobility problems. They are a sign of the Prince of Wales’ concern for his mother as unplanned visits between households on the estate are highly unusual, royal experts say.
The Sun revealed yesterday how the 96-year-old monarch is not expected to travel the 1,000-mile round-trip from Balmoral to appoint a new Prime Minister next month. She has battled for almost a year with mobility problems and closest advisors are worried about her comfort on the 48-hour trip when the incoming PM can readily travel to Scotland.
The traditional public welcoming party for the Queen when she arrived at Balmoral was also moved behind closed doors. She has not been seen at church on Sundays since she arrived but it is thought she plans to attend the annual Braemar games next weekend.
Prince Andrew, 62, is staying at the main house, having moved in the day after the Queen arrived this month. They are said to be locked in intense talks over his future.
Meanwhile, Charles, 73, has been using gaps in his schedule to spend time with her.
Ingrid Seward, of Majesty Magazine, said: “It’s highly unusual for Prince Charles to make these kinds of impromptu visits to see his mother. But Charles is a very thoughtful person — and who else can she rely on now Prince Philip has gone? Everyone thinks they normally see each other all the time, but they don’t. They often blame it on the geography because everyone is scattered all around the country.”
I think Charles is worried about her health too. However, his visits could simply be about Prince Andrew’s presence in Balmoral. Charles knows Andrew loves to persuade the Queen into signing off on crazy comeback schemes and money transfers. Charles is probably making sure that Andrew isn’t talking the Queen into giving him another mansion. Still, it does feel… I don’t know, like this is the Queen’s last summer in Scotland?
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Well, she’s trapped in the house with PA and talks of his future. If that won’t deteriorate her health, then I don’t know what will. Where’s the outrage over how dare Andrew hurt the queen as her health weakens? Oh, what, it’s just Meghan’s Cut interview that’s harming her? Hmmm.
While a person that age could fall or get sick and pass very quickly, I still think she’s fine and they’re just being super weird about the wheelchair situation.
My money is definitely on Charles blocking Andrew.
The vultures are starting to circle. Not a good sign, especially in Andrew’s case. No small wonder Charles is monitoring the situation — he’d better start counting the silverware. Kaiser, I totally agree about the “spidey sense”. I get it too, it feels like a tingling in the back of my head whenever something bad is about to happen.
Imagine being in a household so stringently governed by process and protocol that visiting your very elderly and ill mom is a state affair?
I know a lot of people have low-contact/no-contact households and that is a different situation-and I don’t blame people who need to choose that option for their own mental/physical health and well-being. I’m talking about my mom, who lives just down the road and is around Charles’s age. I see them 4-5x a week, at least, and sometimes multiple times a day depending on what we have going on. This actually just inspired me to call them and invite them to the lake for the night. How awful.
Or maybe QE is just becoming more confused in thinking and speaking. I could see PC as being more concerned over what she might say or do than in being concerned about her possible demise.
My dad’s almost 95. He was pretty much fine (although he used a walker) until he got pneumonia at the beginning of Covid and was hospitalized for about 4 wks. After all that time, without our being able to visit (even though we called every 1/2 hr and FT once a day (thanks to his kind nurses helping)), he deteriorated cognitively and physically. We could see a difference, esp. since he now needed a wheelchair all the time, as he had a *lot* of trouble walking when he came home.
After this, he slid down rapidly. Not just the cognition, but a few months later, in Nov. of that same year, he had a few (what the neurologist thinks were) TIAs and that’s when the aphasia started. It wasn’t bad at first, for over a year, it was just searching for a word here and there. In the last FEW MONTHS, he went from that, to speaking almost incomprehensible “sentences”, like random words and nonsense words strung together most of the time. It’s heartbreaking, and it happened FAST.
Considering no one has seen or heard Liz in over a month, who knows? Could be a rapid deterioration. As I found, it happens frequently at that age.
I’m 50/50 between she’s on the way out so he’s seeing her when he can vs. he knows what Andrew is like and is coming in daily to knock back whatever the latest ‘idea’ is that Liz has been signed up to.
Also, I love that in the header pic Khate has her hand up to her chest to show off big blue. She can’t help herself.
When I heard of Charles’ daily visits, I kind of thought to myself, it sounds like the end is coming. He did the same thing right before Philip died with the daily visits.
However, the fact Andrew is there makes it just as likely that Charles is blocking Andrew from getting his hands on any more money or staging another comeback. QEII just seems especially vulnerable and fragile now. I do think if she makes it to Christmas, it will definitely be her last. But what Charles is doing right now is anyone’s guess.
At this point, “mobility problems” is a euphemism, right? Like technically it’s true, she’s having trouble getting around, but that’s the symptom, not the culprit of her current state. She’s likely sick with something serious, but they just don’t want to say it.
Charles and his mother have ever had a fractious, cold and tricky relationship. He believes she sacrificed his childhood care to her duty as a Monarch. I suspect his visits are a sign of the power struggle happening internally as the various courtiers and fiefdoms prepare for the fall of the Elizabethan era. They’re all in there, Andrew included, with their sleeves rolled up looking to get whatever they can.
“Unplanned visits between households on the estate are highly unusual”. This is the family’s summer vacation compound yet you can’t drop by to visit each other, an audience has to be requested. The Windsors have lost track that they are a family and it’s Elizabeth’s doing. In her father’s time they were a family. There’s the business of monarchy and then there’s family, but to them is all business headed by a woman who can’t get out of her own head.
My guess is that these daily visits are business related since that’s the only way they can relate to each other.
Am not sure she will leave Balmoral to return to London when she usually does – the new UK PM will be decided in the next week or so and if they go up to Balormal to see her then we know she doesn’t have long left.
I hope the new PM is a little more honest than the last one and is okay saying something. You don’t have to invade her medical privacy but just admit the situation for what it is. I even have the perfect statement: “Queen Elizabeth’s life is coming to a close. We ask that you respect the privacy of her family at this time. We will update more as her family deems it necessary. God save the Queen.”
That would be terrible imo. Nobody needs to announce that she’s dying, that is her choice to make (if it’s true). That whole statement is awful and overstepping.
The royals should simply announce that she has health limitations due to her age and will make fewer/rare appearances.
Why is it awful? Would you rather this game the courtiers and men in grey are playing endure? I don’t. It all looks shady and underhanded. You can tell the truth without telling the whole truth or invading her privacy. No one is asking for an exact diagnosis. Say something instead of nothing or dancing around the issue. Even if it is to say “look…she’s a 96 year old widow. She’s doing the best she can.”
I’m thinking Charles will be at the PM investiture to “support” the Queen — we’ll see, I guess.
I think Charles is deeply worried about what Andrew will manipulate her into doing.
But yes it also sounds like she doesn’t have much time left. It’s kinda gross that her aides are suddenly concerned when they spent all spring(leading up the jubbly) signing off on her making appearance after appearance. Suddenly they’re worried for her. 🙄
What are Anne and Edward up to? Are they making frequent visits? I think that would add weight to this.
My great grandmother was wealthy and was always adjusting who was in her will depending on whether she was upset with them. (Unfortunately my grandmother was on the outs when she died.) Despite her best efforts to maintain control, it was a person she actually trusted who was able to swindle her. I think this about Andrew.
I am sure I saw a photo yesterday of Prince Charles going to Crathie Church and Edward was also in a car being driven by Princess Anne’s husband. That was the third week Edward would appear to have been at Crathie Church.
Prince Charles was said to have had a business meeting with Andrew who is wanting to get back to royal duties and tea and biscuits a few days later with Beatrice and Eugenie who spoke on behalf of their father. Answer was no way.
Prince Charles could be at Balmoral every day to do the state papers if Queen not fit to do them.
I also read a comment to an article in a paper months ago from someone that knew a Buckingham Palace staff member and it is common knowledge there that the Queen has cancer. It just had a ring of truth.